Submitted by Sampath K Maduri, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Here's a technique that allows you to dynamically render a date or date range prompt based on user selection. This can be achieved by using conditional blocks and different prompt pages, however, this technique uses a single prompt page and conditional block. Open Report Studio against any package - the package isn’t important as no data items will be used from the package to create the prompt page or report. Insert a table with 4 columns, 4 rows. Drag and drop a... [Continue Reading]

Based on feedback received from our customers, we have adjusted the date at which we will no longer accept technical support requests, either by phone or electronically, for the legacy releases listed below. While legacy versions of IBM Cognos products have reached end of support and no longer have defect corrections developed, we have continued to accept technical support calls, ensuring that companies can resolve the questions and issues they encounter. We regularly review the list of inactive product releases to determine those which... [Continue Reading]

IBM Cognos BI V10 features bring valuable capabilities to your business users and your IT organization, creating new innovative ways to address business needs. To fully benefit from the new architecture and functionality of IBM Cognos 10, the upgrade process requires a thorough understanding of the differences between the two platforms and consideration of the strategy and plans for your upgrade. For customers looking to upgrade soon, the IBM Cognos BI v10 Upgrade Initiate service package combines our depth of knowledge on how best to... [Continue Reading]

Contributed by Rebecca Wormleighton More aggressive business demands are driving a greater need to ensure the highest availability, performance and scalability. With this growing demand also comes an increase in user expectations for business analytics and data warehousing solutions to perform at an enterprise application level. Your business analytics and data warehousing solutions must support more users and more frequent and sophisticated queries of larger volumes of data while ensuring optimal availability and performance even when usage... [Continue Reading]

The following demo is an abstract from the IBM Cognos TM1: Administer the Technical Environment (V9.5) two day training course, available in a classroom or online environment. Click here if you would like to know more about this training course or other training courses. You want to enable audit logging for the GreatOutdoors TM1 server, process the audit log, and review the details of the audit log. This demo shows how to use the audit log, with the GreatOutdoors TM1 server, but you can use any TM1 server that you have available. Server: ... [Continue Reading]

Submitted by Paul Bard, Senior Marketing Writer, IBM Cognos Business Analytics Forum is only three weeks away! But don’t panic. If you haven’t registered yet, you still have time. And you can still save $200 off the onsite price if you register by October 22. With companies in all industries demanding the maximum return on all their investments, there’s no better way to assure that your company gets the maximum return on its own investment in IBM software than by joining us at this important, once-a-year event. Whether your specific job role... [Continue Reading]

Submitted by Tim O'Bryan , Business Unit Executive, BA Market Strategy and Portfolio Marketing Whoever said, “you can’t take it with you” definitely wasn’t thinking of IBM Cognos Mobile. IBM Cognos Mobile offers the same simple, easy-to-consume, reliable and secure capability of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence with the equally powerful and visual on- and off-line experience. Yes, users can view, analyze and share reports from anywhere just like they can with IBM Cognos BI only now it’s on a mobile device. Whether... [Continue Reading]

The following technique is an IBM Cognos Proven Practice . This technique will also be featured at the Business Analytics Products Lab at IOD 2011. In order to enable breadcrumbs within IBM Cognos Analysis Studio changes are required to the ansproperties.xml file and to the advanced settings of the ReportService. Configuring ansproperties.xml The following section provides the step by step instructions on changing the ansproperties.xml file. Within the IBM Cognos installation go to the configuration folder. If you don't... [Continue Reading]

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